Improvement in cotton-gins



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ROBERT W. STOUGH, OF G'RI'F-FIN, GEORGIA.

Letters .Patent No. 88,924, dated April 13, 1869. v

D/.EPROVEMENT IN COTTON-GINS.

The Schedule referred to in theseLetters Patent and making part of the 4same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT W. STOUGH, of Grifiin, in the county of Spaulding, and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ootton-Gins; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, which willenable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specilication.

This invention relates to an improved-arrangement of means for communicating a lateral movement to the cotton as it is fed up to the saws, in order to produce a more uniform action of the saws thereon.

Figure l represents an elevation of a part of a cotton-gin, with my'improvement applied thereto, and

Figure 2 represents a transverse section of the same,

'taken on the line x x of lig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

I provide Va series of rigid arms, A, in front of the seed-board B, and connected to the slide-bar O, which receives a to-and-fro motion from the cam D, on the saw arbor, and a coiled spring, E, bearing against the end of the slide-bar opposite to the end actuated by the cam, theend adjacent to the cam being provided with a lug, F, against which the cam acts.

By this arrangement, the/arms A receive a to-andfro motion at right angles to that of the cotton moving up to the saws, and the downward projecting'ends of the arms taking into the mass of cotton, communi- 

